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H. B. BUTTS..

THILL HOLDER.

(No Model.)

No. 390,566. Patented Oct. 2, 1888..

UNITED STATES PATENT rerun.

HENRY B. BUTTS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO LUOINDA BUTTS, OF SAME PLACE.

THILL-HOLER.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,566, dated October 2, 1888.

Application filed February 27,1888. Serial No; 265,385. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom, it may concern.- nal holes in the pin at 16, through which the Be itknown that I, HENRY B. BUTTS, of the cord passes. The holes lead from the center city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have of the pin at its rear end outwardly and forinvented a certain new and useful Improvewardly to grooves 17, made in the sides ofthe ment in Thill-Holders, of which the following pin. The grooves have sufcient size to admit 55 is a full, clear, and exact description, reference the whole of the cord, so that it does not probeing had to the accompanying drawings,A ject beyond the circumference ofthe pin. The

forming part of this specification. forward end of the pin has an axial recess or This is a removable device by which thills socket, 18, into whichthe ends 19 ofthe loop [0 may be held in an upright position. are inserted and fastened bya plug, 20, which 60 Figure I shows the part of the thill and axle is driven in between them. to which the device is applied in vertical sec- I do not confine myself to the described tion, part of the device being shown also in means of locking the loop to the pin, for it is section and partin side view. Fig. II isa front obvious that it may be done in a number of view showing the device in use. Fig. III is a ways without the exercise of any special in- 65 section at IH III, Fig. II. Fig. IV is a perventive faculty. The loop is of such length spective View of the clip and part of the dethat when the pin is in the hole l1 and the vice. Fig. V is a side view of the nut upon thills raised, as seenin Fig. I, theloop Will ex which the loop is engaged, and Fig. VI is a tend behind the axle and engage on thenut5,as

top view of the same. Fig. VII is a front shown, and if the pin is locked in the hole 11 70 view cfa modification. the thills will thus be held up in the position 1 is the fore aXle of a vehicle. shown. 2 is one of the thill-clips. Asa means oflocking thepin, I have formed 3 is the clipplate. in its sides notches 21 to receive the edges of 4 and 5 are the nuts screwing on the ends of a lock-plate, 22. The lock-plate has a hole, 75 the clip and bearing against the under side of 23, made through it of equal diameter with the plate. The nut 5 has a circular projection, the pin, so that the pin will easily pass through 6, on the upper part, which bears against the it when the plate is applied to the pin. On plate 3. The projection is smaller in diameter one side of the hole 23 is a slot, 2i, whose than the nut, so that there is a circular recess edges 25 enter the tILHSVelSG notches 2l made 8o around the projection to receive the loop of in thesides, ofthe widthofthe slot, and is equal the device. to the distance through the pin from a notch, 21,

i m 7 is one of two lugs upon the clip 2, to which to the notch on the opposite side, so that when the thill-strap 8 is connected by a bolt, 9, in the locking-plate is in the position shown in the usual or any suitable way. Figs. I, II, III, and IV, and bearing against S5 10 is one of the thills. The ordinary bolt, the clip-plate 13, the pin cannot be drawn nearest the end of the thill, may be removed, backward in the hole l1, and consequently the leaving a hole, 11, passing straight through the thills are snstai ned in their upright position. thill 1() and strap 8, or a special hole, 11, may As a modification of thelockplate22, Ishow 4o be made through them. In order to hold the in Fig. VII a latch, 26, pivoted to the plate 13 9o parts together at this point and toincrease the or 27, and having a slot, 24, whose edges enstrength of the thill, I prefer to place a clip, gage in the notches 26 of the pin to hold it in 12, around the thill andstrap 8, 13 being the substantially the same manner as the plate 22. clip-plate, said clip and plate being bored Vhen it is desired to lock the thills in their through in line with the hole 11, which hole upper position, they are raised, and the loop 95 thus extends through them. having been engaged on the nut 5, the pin 14 141 is a pin fitting the hole 11 easily and havpasses through the hole 11 from the rear. ing Iattached to it a loop, 15. This loop may Then the pin is engaged by the look-plate. very properly be made of wire cord. As a To lower the thills, the lock-plate is disenmeans of attachment to the pin, I ,drill diego gaged from the pin 14, and the latter will be 10Q drawn from the thills as the latter are lowered down. The loop may now be disengaged from the nut 5, and the device is free to loe pnt in any suitable place. y

rlhe device niayobvionsly be applied tothe holding up of a tongue, Where it is arranged to couple to the saine clips, the tongue having at the rear end bars occupying` the saine place as the rear ends of the thiils.

Any projection on the axle may he made to engage the loops in place of the nut 5.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a thill-holder, of a pin adapted to pass through a hole in thethill, a loop attached tothe pin and adapted to engage a. projection upon the axle, and a device to lock the pin in the thill, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a pin having notches in its sides, the thill provided with a hole, 11, adapted to receive the pin, alocleplate adapted to engage in the notches of the pin and bear against the thili, and a loop attached to the pin adapted to engage on a projection of the axle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The combination of the thill and a clip on the thill, both traversed by a hole, l1, a pin tting` said hole and having` notehesin its sides, a locking-plate adapted to embrace the pin and enga-ge in said notches, and aloop attached 'to the pin and adapted to engage on a projection of the axle.

4. The combination of the thill having on it a clip with a hole, 1l, traversing both thill and clip, a pin fitting` the hole 1l and having side notches, a lockingplate engaging the side notches and hearing against the olip-plate, a clip-nut, 5, with a circular recess and a loop iixed to the pin and adapted to engage in the recess of the nut 5, substantially as set forth.

HENRY B. BUTTS.

'Witnesses SAML. KNIGHT, EDWD. S. KNIGHT. 

